Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills (Page 186)

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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1418

Introduced
12/12/22  
Refer
12/12/22  
Report Pass
1/24/23  
Engrossed
1/27/23  
Refer
1/31/23  
Report Pass
2/8/23  
Enrolled
2/15/23  
Chaptered
3/21/23  
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Real Estate Appraiser Board; appraisal experience. Requires the Real Estate Appraiser Board to accept evidence of the successful completion of a Licensed Residential PAREA Program or Certified Residential PAREA Program to satisfy the experience requirements established in regulations as a condition of licensure as a licensed residential real estate appraiser, certified residential real estate appraiser, or certified general real estate appraiser. The bill defines "Certified Residential PAREA Program" or "Licensed Residential PAREA Program" as a Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal experience training program approved by the Appraiser Qualifications Board of the Appraisal Foundation that utilizes simulated experience training and serves as an alternative to the traditional supervisor and trainee method of achieving appraisal experience.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HJR462

Introduced
12/12/22  
Constitutional amendment (first reference); personal property tax; exemption for motor vehicles owned for personal, noncommercial use. Requires the General Assembly to exempt from personal property taxes motor vehicles owned by an individual for personal, noncommercial use. For purposes of the exemption, "motor vehicle" includes only automobiles, pickup trucks, and motorcycles. The amendment provides that the exemption shall be applicable on the date the motor vehicle is acquired or the effective date of the amendment, whichever is later, but shall not be applicable for any period of time prior to the effective date.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1420

Introduced
12/13/22  
Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1415

Introduced
12/7/22  
Refer
12/7/22  
Report Pass
1/30/23  
Richard Bland College; governance. Removes the authority of the board of visitors of The College of William and Mary in Virginia to supervise, manage, and control Richard Bland College and establishes the 12-member board of visitors of Richard Bland College to generally direct the affairs of the College, including appointing all teachers and fixing their salaries, providing for the employment of other personnel as required, and caring for and preserving all property belonging to the College.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB802

Introduced
12/5/22  
Refer
12/5/22  
Report Pass
1/17/23  
Report Pass
1/24/23  
Engrossed
1/26/23  
Refer
2/9/23  
Report Pass
2/14/23  
Enrolled
3/7/23  
Chaptered
3/27/23  
Licensure of professional counselors; Counseling Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Counseling Compact. The Compact permits eligible licensed professional counselors to practice in Compact member states, provided that they are licensed in at least one member state. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2024, and directs the Board of Counseling to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1416

Introduced
12/8/22  
Refer
12/8/22  
Report Pass
1/23/23  
Engrossed
1/26/23  
Refer
1/30/23  
Report Pass
2/8/23  
Engrossed
2/13/23  
Engrossed
2/15/23  
Enrolled
2/20/23  
Chaptered
3/27/23  
Testing persons charged with certain crimes for sexually transmitted infections. Provides that as soon as practicable following arrest, or following indictment, arrest by warrant, or service of a petition in the case of a juvenile, the attorney for the Commonwealth may request after consultation with any complaining witness, or shall request upon the request of the complaining witness, that any person charged with certain specified crimes be requested to submit to testing for sexually transmitted infections, as that term is defined in the bill. The bill provides that if the person charged refuses to submit to testing or the competency of the person to submit to testing is at issue, a court finding probable cause that the complaining witness was exposed to body fluids of the person charged in a manner that may transmit a sexually transmitted infection shall order such testing. The bill also provides that the results of such tests shall not be admissible as evidence in any criminal proceeding.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB807

Introduced
12/11/22  
Refer
12/11/22  
Report Pass
1/16/23  
Engrossed
1/18/23  
Refer
2/8/23  
Report Pass
2/10/23  
Enrolled
2/20/23  
Chaptered
3/21/23  
Local parks; walking trails; liability; property owners. Authorizes a locality or park authority to establish, conduct, and regulate a system of walking trails and releases from certain civil liability the owner of any property leased, licensed, or provided by easement for such use in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB809

Introduced
12/12/22  
Refer
12/12/22  
Report Pass
1/13/23  
Engrossed
1/17/23  
Refer
2/9/23  
Report Pass
2/9/23  
Enrolled
2/16/23  
Chaptered
3/22/23  
Alcoholic beverage control; displays of wine and beer; report. Requires persons licensed to sell wine and beer for off-premises consumption that display such wine and beer outside a clearly discernible location reserved for alcoholic beverages to (i) not place such wine or beer in an area immediately adjacent to nonalcoholic beverages containing the same or similar brand name, logo, or packaging as an alcoholic beverage and (ii) equip any such display with signage that indicates the product is an alcoholic beverage, is clearly visible to consumers, and is of sufficient size to notify the consumer that the product contains alcohol. The bill clarifies that its provisions do not prohibit the placement of nonalcoholic wine or beer in or near a display of alcoholic beverages that contain the same or similar brand name, logo, or packaging as the nonalcoholic wine or beer.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB808

Introduced
12/12/22  
Temporary detention in hospital for testing, observation, or treatment; mental or physical conditions resulting from intoxication. Clarifies that in the case where a mental or physical condition is a result of intoxication, a licensed physician who has attempted to obtain informed consent of an adult person for treatment of such mental or physical condition resulting from intoxication may seek an order from the magistrate or court in the jurisdiction where the respondent is located authorizing temporary detention of the adult person in a hospital emergency department or other appropriate facility for testing, observation, or treatment, provided that certain conditions are met.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB804

Introduced
12/8/22  
Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates. Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, and political committees from soliciting or accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any public utility or any political committee established by such public utility from making any such contribution.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB803

Introduced
12/8/22  
Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $20,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or the General Assembly in any one election cycle. No limits are placed on contributions made by the candidate or the candidate's family to the candidate's campaign or by political party committees. Civil penalties for violations of the limits may equal up to two times the excess contribution amounts.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1417

Introduced
12/12/22  
Refer
12/12/22  
Report Pass
1/18/23  
Engrossed
1/23/23  
Tax on cigars. Modifies the statutory tax rate imposed on selling or distributing cigars by a distributor or remote retail seller by setting such rate at 10 percent of the manufacturer's sales price or $0.30 per cigar, whichever is less. Under current law, the effective rate is 20 percent of the manufacturer's sales price due to language in the Appropriation Act which doubles the statutory rate. Tax on cigars. Modifies the statutory tax rate imposed on selling or distributing cigars by a distributor or remote retail seller by setting such rate at 10 percent of the manufacturer's sales price or $0.30 per cigar, whichever is less. Under current law, the effective rate is 20 percent of the manufacturer's sales price due to language in the Appropriation Act which doubles the statutory rate.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1425

Introduced
12/14/22  
Refer
12/14/22  
Report Pass
1/23/23  
Engrossed
1/26/23  
Refer
1/30/23  
Report Pass
2/8/23  
Enrolled
2/15/23  
Chaptered
3/21/23  
Conservators of the peace; search warrants; military criminal investigative organizations. Provides that a special agent of the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division and United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations shall be a conservator of the peace and may serve a search warrant jointly with a Virginia law-enforcement officer. Under current law, of the federal military investigation offices, only a special agent of the United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service has this authority. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1422

Introduced
12/14/22  
Refer
12/14/22  
Report Pass
1/27/23  
Engrossed
2/1/23  
Refer
2/3/23  
Report Pass
2/13/23  
Enrolled
2/21/23  
Chaptered
3/21/23  
Concealed handgun permit; demonstrated competence. Adds a firearms safety or training course conducted by the United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) or by a USCCA-certified firearms instructor, or any firearms safety or training course or class available to the general public offered by a law-enforcement agency, institution of higher education, or private or public institution or organization or firearms training school utilizing instructors certified by the USCCA to those programs that satisfy the demonstration of competence requirement for the issuance of a Virginia resident or nonresident concealed handgun permit.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1424

Introduced
12/14/22  
Refer
12/14/22  
Report Pass
1/23/23  
National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; name; eligibility; incentive grant awards. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Board Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund, expands eligibility for incentive grant awards from such Fund pursuant to such Program from solely teachers who have obtained national certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to (i) all public school staff who are candidates for initial national certification or maintenance of national certification to cover certain costs of obtaining or maintaining such certification and (ii) all public school staff who have successfully obtained or maintained such certification. The bill also declares eligible for an annual incentive grant award in the amount of $7,500 all public school staff who have obtained or maintained such certification. Current law declares eligible for an annual incentive grant award of $5,000 in the first year and $2,500 in each subsequent year all teachers who have obtained or maintained such certification.